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05 September 2007
Official Support for Moonlight

Yesterday Microsoft released to the Web Silverlight but in the same press release announced support for Mono's Moonlight project as the official Silverlight implementation on Linux. This shows quite a significant commitment from Microsoft to really make Silverlight a true cross platform solution... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, Open Source, Mono, Silverlight

18 April 2007
Xcode C# Support

Jaume Llarden created a Xcode plugin to enable C# development from within Xcode, Apple's IDE for OS X, using the Mono compiler and Xcode build tools. In the current build he supports proect templates and build targets for .NET Console applications, class libraries and Cocoa# applications. Basically everything... Read More...

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Filed under: Mono, C#, Apple, Mac

03 November 2006
Novell and Microsoft Collaborate

Microsoft's public attitude towards open source is changing rapidly. First the Microsoft Open Specification Promise promising not to make any claims against implementations of any of the specifications covered by the promise and now an announcement of the broad collaboration between Microsoft and Novell... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Open Source, Mono, Microsoft

01 November 2006
Managed Operating Systems - Singularity / SharpOS

A while back my colleague, Mike Welham , pointed out to me the Singularity project, a managed research operating system prototype by Microsoft Research. Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Mono, SharpOS, OS, singularity

27 October 2006
Mono Status - Mono Meeting Slides

The slides posted from the recent Mono Meeting gives a very good indication of the current status of the project and the roadmap going forward. If you're interested in cross-platform .NET have a look at some of the slides posted on Miguel de Icaza's blog : Mono Roadmap, opening presentation.... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, Vista, Open Source, Mono, WCS, WCF, Cardspace

07 April 2006
Mono.Cecil - Optional Parameters

Earlier this week I posted a link to the Mono.Cecil 0.4.1 release but didn't include the sample source code I intially intended to. Below is the original post with sample source code included. It's an example of rather limited use for day to day development work but is in part based on a requirement... Read More...

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Filed under: General, .NET, Open Source, Mono

28 February 2006
Mono with Visual Studio

Francisco Martinez have developed a set of tools and screencasts to make developing with Mono using Visual Studio easier using prj2make-sharp tool's custom Visual Studio add-in. For a summary with links to all the screen-casts see Miguel de Icaza's post and the " Working with Mono and Visual Studio ... Read More...

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Filed under: Mono

03 February 2006
Friday afternoon snippet.. Interned Strings Fun

Jon Skeet posted an interesting snippet of code on the DOTNET-CLR newsgroup a couple of days back related to modifying the values of interned strings in the string pool. The .NET CLR always returns a reference to the same string whenever the same literal string is encountered, this reference pointing... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, Fun Stuff, Mono

20 January 2006
Positions Available - .NET/Symbian

I've posted several .NET jobs on my blog before, mostly for other people or companies, but this is for some open positions on our team at Red Five Labs. If you're really passionate about development and keen to work in a very challenging environment where you get to implement the CLI/.NET framework on... Read More...

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Filed under: General, .NET, Personal, dotnet.org.za, Symbian, CF, Mono